>>As I already said, a native compiler would be nice as an option. After all, it's not impossible to not use macro subst. if you need real calculation speed.
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>>Vlad
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>>>A native compiler would be nice, but we'd lose macro substitution.
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>>>George
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> also I believe that a smart compiler can identify blocks of code that will not be needed to be interperted at run time and compile only parts of the code (now this can be real nice (s))
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>Arnon

Nice? It would be sensational. I don't know, however, if the state of the art has reached this point yet. It probably will, but I don't believe we're there yet.

George